Ravi, Thanks for the awesome article. I may add that in fedora too, core dumps are disabled by default. So you need not have /tmp directory in its own partition.Creating a seperate partition for /home is new to me. Must try it out.

Reopen Windows Explorer. Select your C: drive (you may have to click Show the contents of this folder). Right-click in the right pane and select New, Folder. Name the new folder oldstuff. In the left pane, choose the Documents and Settings folder. It shou